“Tina Turner? I love her,” said Williams on the inspiration for her outfit. “I love Tina Turner. Obviously, she’s just an amazing, amazing artist, just a survivor. She reinvented herself. Plus she looks great. I’ve loved her forever. So the dress is really inspired by her.”

“I mean, just got here yesterday, flying from Brussels yesterday morning,” Henin said of stepping on the Wimbledon lawns again. “But at the first minute, it was very good feeling, yeah, to be back. I think I see things differently at the moment. I probably enjoy it much more. No, it’s been only good things since I’m arrived. I’m happy about today’s match. Good to be back on the court also.”

The two minor upsets on the day were Russian Vera Dushevina topping No. 5 seed and French Open winner Francesca Schiavone in three sets, and Hungarian qualifier Greta Arn defeating No. 34 seed Kateryna Bondarenko in three.

“Was tough match. Was different surface, different feeling,” Schiavone said. “But she played very good and I didn’t take my chance maybe in the second set. It’s much more easy when you don’t serve so good and when you don’t catch your chance, particularly on the grass.”